Zhipu says new coding AI developed advanced cyber skills faster than expected

Zhipu, a Chinese AI company, released GLM-5.3, a coding AI model that unexpectedly developed strong cybersecurity capabilities, including the ability to find vulnerabilities (security weaknesses in code) and plan exploitation chains (sequences of attacks). The model identified over 2,400 vulnerabilities in real-world software, but experts warn that teaching AI to write code well inherently teaches it to find security weaknesses like a hacker would, creating risks if safety guardrails are removed from publicly released models.